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Disseminated tumor cells: diagnosis, prognostic relevance, and phenotyping.
Recent results in cancer research. Fortschritte der Krebsforschung. Progres dans les recherches sur le cancer - 1 Jan 2001
Pantel K, Otte M
Abstract excerpt
Malignant tumors of epithelial tissue are the most common form of cancer and are responsible for the majority of cancer-related deaths in Western industrialized countries. As a result of progress in surgical treatment of these tumors, lethality is linked increasingly with early metastasis, which is generally occult at the time of primary diagnosis. The decision as to whether systemic adjuvant therapy should be...
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